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The title of this thesis is “Penerjemahan Teks Marpokat Haroan Boru dalam Perkawinan adat Mandailing dari Bahasa Mandailing ke dalam Bahasa Inggris”. This study is conducted for two main purposes. First, to know the process and the translation of text of Marpokat Haroan Boru in Mandailing culture. Second, to apply appropiate techniques for the cultural text. The data of the descriptive-kualitative study is a written text of Marpokat Haroan Boru ceremony in Mandailing language, comprising 22 paragraphs and 2 verses. The data is taken from Adat Budaya Mandailing written by H. Pandapotan Nasution published in 2005 by FORKALA Prov. Sumatera Utara. This study emphasizes translation based on meaning, not literally. Before translation is done, firstly the researcher approaches the text by Contrastive analysis and Cross cultural analysis. This is aimed at finding out the differences of lingustic system and cultural aspects of Mandailing and English. It has been found out that Mandailingnese and English have more differences in linguistic structure such as, system of pronoun, structure of phrase, sentences patterns, meaning components, polysemy, synonymy and antonymy, specific and generic meaning, metaphor, idiom and euphemism. It has also been found out that Mandailingnese society and English society differ greatly in some cultural aspects such as religion and belief, family and marriage, type of society, gender and social manners. In translating the text, some translation techniques such as addition, omission, paraphrase, generalization, meaning translation, literal translation are apllied. The translation process of this text goes through several stages, analyzing text structure, transferring the meaning, writing first draft, analyzing the first draft and writing the second draft, evaluating the second draft, writing the third draft, reevaluating and writing the final draft.